At the end of a complex judicial police investigation into a transport company Aprilia for serious cases of tax crimes, carried out by the Financiers of the Provincial Command of the Guardia di Finanza of Latina, on delegation of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Latina, a preventive seizure order issued by the Judge for Preliminary Investigations of the Court of Latin.
The investigations concerned a company operating in the road haulage sector which, according to the reconstruction, from 2018 to 2023, failed to pay VAT and withholdings applied to approximately 1000 employees, located throughout the national territory, for approximately 20 million euros.
The complex information, analysis and accounting examination activities conducted by the Fiamme Gialle of the Tenenza of Aprilia made it possible to collect detailed evidentiary elements, to support the accusatory system, to hypothesize the violations of omitted tax payments.
The provision
On the basis of the elements collected, the Judge for preliminary investigations at the Court of Latina, at the request of the local Public Prosecutor’s Office, ordered preventive seizure, direct and in the “equivalent” form, against the legal representative of the company, aimed at confiscation of money and goods for a total amount of €19,442,852.26, as profit from the alleged crimes, i.e. “failure to pay due or certified withholdings”, “failure to pay VAT”.
The execution of the measure was carried out following a targeted activity by the Guardia di Finanza to identify the sums in current accounts, deposits or other banking relationships, as well as to reconstruct the assets of the movable or immovable property registered to the subjects involved.
The use of dogs to find cash
The complex activity carried out also with the help of a canine unit of the “cash dog” type sent in support by the Guardia di Finanza Group of Fiumicino, allowed the seizure, for subsequent recovery to the treasury, of sums of cash, financial assets, current accounts, share funds for approximately 3 million euros, 5 properties for a value of approximately 700 thousand euros, company shares and vehicles of various types, up to the full amount of the amount subject to the delegated preventive seizure.
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